Police debacle leaves the McGowan government battling to rebuild public trust in the SafeWA app
- Written by Tama Leaver, Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
QR code contact-tracing apps are a crucial part of our defence against COVID-19. But their value depends on being widely used, which in turn means people using these apps need to be confident their data won’t be misused.
That’s why this week’s revelation that Western Australian police accessed data gathered using the SafeWA app are...